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Minnesota Constitutional Amendment 1

Increasing funding to school districts. 2026 results by county, from Minnesota's official results file: Yes 72.6%, No 23.4% statewide.

Statewide

The question: Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to increase the funding going to all school districts from the permanent school fund, which is a fund that supports school districts without raising individual income or property taxes, effective July 1, 2027?

Yes 72.6% No 23.4%

2,069,087 yes and 666,712 no. Left blank: 115,816 (4.1%), the state's “ESTIMATED BLANKS” line; the shares are of every ballot, blanks included, in the state and in each county. Minnesota's Constitution makes an amendment part of it only "if a majority of all the electors voting at the election vote to ratify" it (article IX, section 1), so a ballot left blank on the amendment counts against it. The shares here are of every ballot, with the Secretary of State's estimate of those left blank, and the line on the bar marks half of them.

The Secretary of State's ballot questions file · Minnesota Constitution, article IX: how an amendment is ratified · The state's unofficial results

The state's unofficial totals. We don't call measures.

By county

87 counties: Yes has the most votes in 87. The figures for each county are from the same file and add up to the statewide totals.

CountyYesNoVotes
Aitkin County66.6%29.8%9,018
Anoka County68.6%26.3%183,285
Becker County68.8%28.2%16,910
Beltrami County73.1%23.5%20,275
Benton County60.3%35.3%18,773
Big Stone County70.4%27.0%2,435
Blue Earth County75.3%21.4%29,942
Brown County68.7%28.0%11,838
Carlton County75.3%21.3%17,604
Carver County70.0%26.0%61,950
Cass County66.1%30.4%16,703
Chippewa County69.5%27.6%5,111
Chisago County62.0%33.9%29,443
Clay County77.5%19.2%27,047
Clearwater County63.5%31.2%4,025
Cook County78.6%18.2%3,406
Cottonwood County68.2%29.3%4,860
Crow Wing County62.6%34.4%35,824
Dakota County74.7%21.3%232,208
Dodge County63.8%32.6%10,424
Douglas County67.8%29.6%21,615
Faribault County67.8%29.5%6,478
Fillmore County68.8%28.2%10,265
Freeborn County70.6%26.2%13,491
Goodhue County66.6%30.1%24,602
Grant County72.7%24.2%3,108
Hennepin County79.9%15.3%669,613
Houston County70.6%25.5%9,355
Hubbard County66.3%30.6%11,891
Isanti County57.3%38.2%20,948
Itasca County68.7%28.1%22,060
Jackson County69.3%28.0%4,928
Kanabec County62.9%33.0%7,640
Kandiyohi County65.6%31.2%19,651
Kittson County78.3%18.0%2,085
Koochiching County68.2%28.3%5,494
Lac qui Parle County68.4%29.3%3,426
Lake County75.3%22.1%6,008
Lake of the Woods County64.6%31.1%1,874
Le Sueur County63.6%32.5%14,473
Lincoln County70.1%27.2%2,557
Lyon County68.5%28.6%10,499
Mahnomen County76.5%19.8%1,994
Marshall County72.3%23.3%4,409
Martin County65.7%31.1%8,718
McLeod County61.3%36.0%17,367
Meeker County63.1%33.8%11,484
Mille Lacs County59.6%35.9%12,117
Morrison County54.4%40.7%16,448
Mower County68.6%27.5%15,895
Murray County70.1%26.7%4,020
Nicollet County73.7%23.2%16,703
Nobles County71.7%23.9%6,693
Norman County76.1%20.7%2,687
Olmsted County74.0%22.7%79,430
Otter Tail County66.8%30.0%31,287
Pennington County72.0%24.9%5,503
Pine County63.6%32.0%14,153
Pipestone County67.3%30.3%4,135
Polk County72.8%23.9%12,040
Pope County65.5%31.4%6,121
Ramsey County79.3%16.1%251,221
Red Lake County74.5%21.0%1,942
Redwood County60.9%34.7%6,777
Renville County65.6%31.2%6,468
Rice County71.0%25.4%31,371
Rock County72.8%23.9%4,508
Roseau County68.6%27.9%6,688
Scott County70.3%25.3%80,311
Sherburne County59.3%37.2%47,437
Sibley County63.1%34.5%7,321
St. Louis County75.0%22.7%100,784
Stearns County65.7%29.9%75,147
Steele County63.4%33.6%18,192
Stevens County73.0%23.2%4,438
Swift County66.4%30.8%4,574
Todd County56.3%39.5%11,294
Traverse County71.4%24.3%1,562
Wabasha County65.2%31.4%11,314
Wadena County58.5%37.9%6,523
Waseca County69.0%28.2%8,471
Washington County71.1%25.5%150,253
Watonwan County71.9%24.5%4,094
Wilkin County70.9%25.3%2,595
Winona County72.2%25.0%23,119
Wright County64.8%30.3%76,268
Yellow Medicine County65.3%31.7%4,597

The share with the most votes in each place is in bold. That's the count, not a result.

Sources & scope

Minnesota's official results, file posted Nov 13, 12:38 PM. Unofficial until certified. Minnesota's page has its other statewide offices, ballot measures and legislature.